NEWS BY MAIL.
PASSPORT FORGERS. CHERBOURG, March 24
Nearly all returning liners from the United States bring back passengers who have -been refused entry there foi carrying false passports. A search is being made for the quarter from "inch these papers are obtained. Twelve passengers arriving hove to sail by the Mauretania for New Ink, furnished with false passports, weie brought before a magistrate and exam in ed.
FALL DOWN ALPS CREVASSE ; VEVEY (Switzerland), March 21 i
The first climbing accident o: the season occurred at the Langglet.se.ic. (Linns Glacier), near Goppjinteiu (4,035 feet above sea level). Several tourists were attempting, to cross a large crevasse uncorded, when one, Oscar Stocker, fell. A guide named Bachmann lowered a lantern into the crevasse, hut was unable to touch bottom.
No trace of the missing man was found. His companions were conducted down to the valley in a state of col-
lapse. On Sunday, in the region of OberaarJocli (Bernese Oberland) a party belonging to the Murren Ski Club was crossing a snow bridge when it gave way, precipitating Fritz von Allmen, son of the proprietor ot the Hotel Eiger Murren, into the crevasse. His body was recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1921, Page 4
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